Author Topic: Cubs in '21  (Read 53852 times)

craig

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Re: Cubs in '21
« on: October 03, 2020, 05:34:53 pm »
Interesting.  Easy to think that Theo isn't going to want to do a rebuild with us.  Wouldn't surprise me if he wasn't interested in moving his career in a different direction from running a baseball team, anyway?  Could stick with Cubs long-term through another rebuild.  Could look for an underachieving big-budget team; Mets or Angels or somebody like that?  Or perhaps he'd like to take a shot with a small-market franchise, where success would be credits to leadership brains not bucks?  I think he's talked about enjoying some of the challenges of making it work with the Padres when he worked there. 

But I also wonder whether he wouldn't like to consider maybe transitioning to something in the social-causes front, and move away from baseball? 

Ron, Theo and Hoyer both have contracts that run through next year.  If I was Ricketts, I'm not sure I'd want to guarantee an extension for Hoyer at this point to carry it well beyond next year. 

If the condition for Theo stepping away from his 21 salary was to extend Hoyer for an extra 5-year contract, I'd maybe decline doing that?  It might be a good time to bring in a different baseball boss than Hoyer, somebody who might have more experience in player evaluation and a better eye for talent evaluation?